Teen Life Coach in Beverly Hills and Brentwood, CA

Evolution Mentoring and Coaching provides teen life coaching and mentoring to families in Beverly Hills, Brentwood and the Los Angeles Westside, California. Jeffrey Leiken, MA is an experienced mentor with 25 years of practice working with bright, creative teens and young adults ages 13 to 31. Sessions are virtual by video or phone. This is mentoring, not therapy.

Talented Kids With No Map

Westside teenagers are often genuinely gifted in music, film, writing, design, sport and performance. Beverly Hills and Brentwood families are frequently the ones who can take that seriously and support it. And still the most common thing Jeff Leiken hears from parents here is that their child is motivated, talented, wants it badly, and has no idea what to actually do next.

Underneath the ambition sits real self-doubt and a tendency to be overwhelmed. And at sixteen or nineteen, they will not take this kind of guidance from a parent, which is exactly why a mentor who is not you can reach them.

Ambition Is Not the Problem. Direction Is.

The young people Jeff works with are bright, thoughtful, sensitive and intense. They overthink until they become their own worst enemy. In a city where success is visible, young, and constantly compared, that reflex has endless material to work with.

Westside parents reach out about teens who are anxious or socially anxious, who have withdrawn into gaming and stopped going outside, who were flattened by a breakup, who put down something they used to love, or who are pursuing something real, whether music, acting, sport or art, and cannot map the steps between here and there.

Mentoring and Life Coaching, Not Therapy

Jeff Leiken is a life coach and mentor. He is not a therapist, does not provide therapy, and does not accept insurance. What he offers is a straightforward alternative: growth and learning instead of treatment, teaching a young person a way of life and the skills to live it.

That includes the practical part: how to break an ambition into real steps, how to keep going when the first attempt fails, how to be judged and survive it. For a creative or performing teenager, that last skill is the whole career.

Jeff also works directly with parents, through two-hour parent coaching consultations that give you a clearer read on what is going on with your child and a practical strategy for handling it at home. The age range runs from 13 to 31, so the work carries through high school, college and the uncertain years just after.

Regular Meetings and Access In Between

Westside families work with Jeff by video and phone on a regular schedule. At the comprehensive level he stays reachable between meetings by text, email and phone. An audition goes badly on a Thursday. A friendship collapses on a Saturday. Those are the moments the work is actually made of, and they never fall on an appointment.

Ask What His Capacity Is

Evolution Mentoring and Coaching takes a small number of families at a time. If what matters to you is finding someone with genuine room and time to invest in your child rather than a practice where your child is one of many, ask Jeff directly when you speak. He will tell you the truth.

Jeff also works with families in Dallas and Silicon Valley. Schedule a free consultation to talk about your child.

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